Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 1 Charlie Black

In the office, thick curtains with classic baroque patterns blocked the light, making the already quiet space appear a little darker.

Charlie Black was sitting behind the long table, leaning on a comfortable high chair. The slender fingers of his left hand gently held a cup of steaming coffee, while the spoon in his right hand kept stirring, forming a small hole in the center of the coffee. swirl.

He repeated this mechanical and meaningless movement, not even noticing that the temperature of the coffee was gradually disappearing.

Charlie's eyes were all focused on the newspaper that was unfolding and floating in front of his eyes.

This is the latest issue of the "Daily Prophet" that has just been delivered to him.

As the most official and authoritative media recognized by the magic world, the "Daily Prophet" is one of the important sources of information that Charlie used to obtain information after he came here.

Because on it, you can easily get all kinds of recent major events in the magic world, as well as all the latest provisions issued by the Ministry of Magic.

And Charlie can easily find what he wants between the lines and the dancing pictures.

But today, the headline on the front page of the "Daily Prophet" seems particularly inconsistent with usual times.

I saw that the text was magnified three times and occupied almost the entire uppermost position horizontally, clearly conveying a message to people-"Mr. Harry Potter is about to turn 11 years old!! At that time, He will enter Hogwarts as a freshman!!!"

After a moment of silence, he simply put the coffee cup and spoon back on the table, then stretched out his right hand and snapped his fingers to the side.

"Snapped"

The voice fell, and then a light flashed suddenly beside Charlie, and a house elf appeared there out of thin air.

"Good afternoon! My great master Charlie, Russell has received your call!" The house elf who called himself Russell bowed respectfully and greeted Charlie.

Charlie nodded, stood up from his seat, and told Russell, "Russell, come with me later..."

Before Charlie finished speaking, Russell immediately became excited after receiving the order. He opened his eyes wide and looked at Charlie with emotion, as if his body couldn't help shaking.

"Great master Charlie needs Russell!!! Follow my great master, you know, as your loyal servant, Russell is willing to do anything for you oh my god, maybe I should prepare Floo powder first. "

"No, no need."

Seems to have gotten used to Russell's state, and Charlie is no stranger to it.He waved his hand casually, walked out from behind the desk, picked up the top hat hanging on the hanger, put it on his head, and continued walking towards the door without stopping.

"This time, we don't use Floo powder."

After he finished speaking, he pushed against the door of the office.

Accompanied by a "squeak", some rusty brass door hinges let out a vague groan.

The door opened slowly, and the light from the outside poured in through the gap in the door, shining on Charlie's black windbreaker, passing through his blond hair, hitting the high bridge of his nose, and awakening the azure blue under the eyelashes. eye………

Immediately afterwards, a factory that could subvert anyone's imagination appeared before his eyes.

Using the magic pump as the most primitive power, it drives countless gears to rotate slowly. After the simple transmission structure is combined with the magic power, a huge and rather sophisticated production line forms the entire magic world, and even The world's largest candy factory - "Charlie's Candy Factory"

In the assembly line, hundreds of house elves are carrying out the work at hand in an orderly manner.Each of them is wearing a uniform work uniform, with a happy smile on their faces.

Hearing the sound of the office door, all the house elves put down their work at the same time, raised their heads, and looked at Charlie.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Black!" Everyone greeted him almost in unison.

"Good afternoon to you too, my dear staff," he replied

While speaking, Charlie nodded with a smile, raised his hand, and waved to hundreds of eager eyes, like a star facing fanatical fans.

While waving his hand as a signal, he walked down the second floor along the hanging ladder, until all the house elves could not see him at all, then Charlie put his hand down and returned to its original state.

"How is the development of the new product I mentioned earlier?"

Charlie walked forward on his own, while Russell carefully followed behind to serve.

Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, paused, and asked.

Russell also hurriedly stopped, and replied, "Very well, Master Charlie! I have handed over this matter to Tika... Oh, maybe you haven't heard of this name, the little guy is your last August One of the house-elfs taken in is a very diligent young man, and he is good at tinkering with new things. Before you said that the flowy heart in Kazizi’s hard candy was not smooth enough, he was the first to think of adding catnip to it. Improves the taste."

"Great." Charlie nodded, "Russell, please show me the way. I want to see it."

"With pleasure, my lord Charlie."

Russell first made another big bow, and then said sincerely, "Please forgive Russell for walking in front of you."

"Of course, let's go."

Under the leadership of Russell, the two shuttled through the intricate factory, and finally came to an iron gate.

On the top of the iron gate, the words "Product Research and Development" were written with some kind of magic paint.And below him, there was a wooden sign that said "Idlers are not allowed to enter" rudely.

"Master, let me open the door for you"

With that said, Russell came to the door and opened it.

The door opened, and what Charlie saw was a rather chaotic room. A wide variety of utensils were randomly placed, and various bags of unsealed raw materials were also opened wantonly, making the whole room feel uncomfortable. The taste has become extraordinarily weird.

In the room, the six house elves looked busier than the assembly line outside. Everyone was doing their own work, and no one was attracted for a moment because of the opening of the door.

"What a bunch of rude mules." Russell wrinkled his expression, obviously extremely dissatisfied with their attitude.

He was about to reprimand him, but Charlie behind him stopped him with his hand.

Charlie shook his head, and then continued to ask, "Which Tika you just mentioned?"

The expression on Russell's face retracted, and he pointed to one of the six people.

I saw that the house elf named Tika was sitting on a sack at the moment, reaching out for an unknown raw material in the side bag, and then stuffed it into his mouth.

Charlie raised his eyebrows and watched his actions with interest without interrupting.

Tika closed his eyes, and chewed the unknown raw material in his mouth.

After two or three minutes, I swallowed them all, and then showed a pleasant smile, shouting "Tika likes this taste!! He can add it to nut halva!!"

Just as he was excited, suddenly, a voice suddenly sounded beside him.

"What are you doing?"

The sudden sound startled him, Tika broke away from his own world, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.

"Oh! Mr. Black!!"

In an instant he jumped up from where he had been sitting and bowed in salute to Charlie.

"You know, looking for an improved formula."

Listening to his answer, Charlie looked curiously into the sack containing the raw materials—yellow powders of different sizes, which seemed to be some kind of dried and crushed plants.

He gently stretched out his hand, twitched a little and sent it to the tip of his tongue, closed his eyes and savored it carefully.

A faint fragrance diffused between his mouth and tongue, although it was faint, it had a unique delicateness.

Tika, whose eyes were shining brightly beside him, said at the right time

"This is the powder ground from sweet-scented osmanthus. I think its unique taste can neutralize the sweetness of the nut halva in a certain proportion."

"nice idea"

Charlie opened his eyes, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, nodded to Tika, and praised him for his idea without hesitation.

After finishing speaking, he lightly flicked his fingertips stained with a little yellow powder, and before Tika was happy, he continued to speak

"But this time I didn't come here to check your work...I heard from Russell that you have developed a new product, can you show it to me?"

Tikka scratched his head, and subconsciously looked at Russell behind Charlie. Seeing Russell's winking and reminding expression, he suddenly realized that he seemed to remember something.

With a slap on the forehead, Tika ran fast with his two short legs supporting his slightly bloated stomach, and rushed to a storage box that was already piled up on the other side of the studio, and quickly rummaged through it.

Charlie waited patiently for a while, but after a long time, Tika shouted, "Aha, here!"

After finishing speaking, he happily returned to Charlie with a small package wrapped in kraft paper and firmly tied with hemp rope.

"Mr. Black! Look, this is the new product you told me about last time."

As he spoke, he held up the small, unremarkable package with both hands, and held it in front of Charlie.

"great."

(End of this chapter)